tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503392532090682825.post1563118057825329767..comments2023-06-13T05:05:28.886-04:00Comments on Economics of Information: Not All the Economic News is BadErik Brynjolfssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01117552073319813366noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503392532090682825.post-18276955694724902342014-12-29T05:26:30.314-05:002014-12-29T05:26:30.314-05:00Nice post. I was checking constantly this blog and...Nice post. I was checking constantly this blog and I’m impressed! Extremely useful info specially the last part I care for such information a lot. I was seeking this certain info for a long time. Thank you and good luck.<a href="http://www.fortunebta.com/exit-planning/" rel="nofollow">business exit planning strategies</a><br />business exit planning strategieshttp://www.fortunebta.com/exit-planning/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503392532090682825.post-85472707942046601422014-12-29T05:24:40.180-05:002014-12-29T05:24:40.180-05:00Nice post. I was checking constantly this blog and...Nice post. I was checking constantly this blog and I’m impressed! Extremely useful info specially the last part I care for such information a lot. I was seeking this certain info for a long time. Thank you and good luck.<a href="http://www.fortunebta.com/exit-planning/" rel="nofollow">business exit planning strategies</a><br />business exit planning strategieshttp://www.fortunebta.com/exit-planning/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503392532090682825.post-13810624846955045572011-11-02T18:58:28.335-04:002011-11-02T18:58:28.335-04:00It seems like one good partial solution would be i...It seems like one good partial solution would be increased leisure time. For example, we could shift to a system of 4 9-hour workdays as the standard, rather than 5 8-hour days.Dan Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12947782079761530102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503392532090682825.post-88148265099129166882011-11-01T06:55:08.804-04:002011-11-01T06:55:08.804-04:00You know that whole evil socialist thing? Unless w...You know that whole evil socialist thing? Unless we can find actual jobs for the population or start enforcing a smaller population, automation will make people less necessary. A basic income will be necessary, or at least jobs digging ditches.<br /><br />We could all have service jobs, but that level of competition within service jobs is going to bring down the value of each worker even more. Prices of automated goods will have to go down to little more than material costs, otherwise who will afford them? It's like the music industry... when everyone and their brother can make a quality album in their garage, albums should not still cost $9.99 or $18.Blixkreeghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15608414360851482066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503392532090682825.post-82421240066456300062011-10-28T15:52:52.731-04:002011-10-28T15:52:52.731-04:00I greatly enjoyed the book and appreciate you brin...I greatly enjoyed the book and appreciate you bringing attention to the technological unemployment issue. It's a welcome and timely update to Martin Ford's 2009 book and the work of Rifkin, Brain, et al.<br /><br />The suggestions in the book about "improving the rate and quality of organization innovation" and "increasing human capital" and the 19 step plan didn't resonate very strongly with me. I suspect it's time for a bolder plan focused on transitioning from the "work for wages" orthodoxy to something more sustainable. (Did you see Douglas Rushkoff's piece for CNN last month? http://edition.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/09/07/rushkoff.jobs.obsolete/index.html)<br /><br />Per your blog post, perhaps the other good news coming from the current economic meltdown is the number of creative ideas being raised which may reduce the magnitude of future creative destructions? Without picking winners and losers: Mohamad Tarifi's Panoply (http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/tarifi20110908), Martin Ford's stipends, Rifkin's Third Sector, Robert Anton Wilson's RICH Economy, James Albus People's Capitalism, Robert Frank's progressive consumption tax, Marshall Brain's Robotic Freedom, Kelso/ Ashford/ Shakespeare's Binary Economics (interest free national bank, economic democracy), behavioral economics, ...). Care to synthesize these :-)?<br /><br />JW Johnston (j.w.johnston@earthlink.net)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503392532090682825.post-86004293588343160452011-10-28T13:03:14.517-04:002011-10-28T13:03:14.517-04:00I greatly enjoyed the book and appreciate you brin...I greatly enjoyed the book and appreciate you bringing attention to the technological unemployment issue. It's a welcome and timely update to Martin Ford's 2009 book and the work of Rifkin, Brain, et al.<br /><br />The suggestions in the book about "improving the rate and quality of organization innovation" and "increasing human capital" and the 19 step plan didn't resonate very strongly with me. I suspect it's time for a bolder plan focused on transitioning from the "work for wages" orthodoxy to something more sustainable. (Did you see Douglas Rushkoff's piece for CNN last month? http://edition.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/09/07/rushkoff.jobs.obsolete/index.html)<br /><br />Per your blog post, perhaps the other good news coming from the current economic meltdown is the number of creative ideas being raised which may reduce the magnitude of future creative destructions? Without picking winners and losers: Mohamad Tarifi's Panoply (http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/tarifi20110908), Martin Ford's stipends, Rifkin's Third Sector, Robert Anton Wilson's RICH Economy, James Albus People's Capitalism, Robert Frank's progressive consumption tax, Marshall Brain's Robotic Freedom, Kelso/ Ashford/ Shakespeare's Binary Economics (interest free national bank, economic democracy), behavioral economics, ...). Care to synthesize these :-)?JW Johnstonnoreply@blogger.com